q-score

To rule out spurious synteny, we developed a quantitative approach to assess the statistical confidence of each ohnolog pair (Singh et al. PLoS Comput Biol 2015). This quantitative approach and corresponding "q-score", ranging from 0 to 1, estimates the probability that each ohnolog pair is simply identified by chance. Hence, lower q-scores imply more statistically significant ohnolog pairs.

Finally, we filter and combine all the initial ohnolog candidates
following the computational flowchart above and generate three sets of ohnolog pairs/families with varying level of statistical significance:

Understanding Ohnolog Families

A gene search leads to Ohnolog Family Page where the ohnolog families constructed by our approach are displayed. Ohnolog partners for the families are displayed in different columns. A typical ohnolog family is depicted below e.g. for the human ERAS
gene

For any gene search, ohnolog families for the most stringent criteria are displayed. If relaxing the q-score criteria leads to a change in ohnolog family, we show them for multiple criteria. In the above example RAS family is identified only using the relaxed criteria. However, in the example below, relaxing the q-score criteria for the human RGL1 family gets and additional gene RALGDS for the intermediate q-score criteria. There is no change in the family with the Relaxed q-score and hence it has not been shown here.

Genes within the same cell are small scale duplicates e.g. RGL4 – RALGDS. We use two different separators for SSDs: a comma (,) to distinguish if it is a recent SSD (after 2R-WGD), and a pipe (|)
for an ancient SSD (before or around the same time as the 2R-WGD). Hence, RGL4 – RALGDS above have been duplicated by a recent
SSD, while UBQLN3 | UBQLNL below have been duplicated by an SSD older than 2R-WGD.

Generate Ohnolog Families

If you wish to generate custom ohnolog families using a different criteria, you can use generate functionality. For generating families, we start with all possible ohnolog pairs i.e. with any q-score and filter them based on user specifications. Then we run depth-first search to generate custom families and merge old and recent SSDs. These families, can be downloaded from the result page.

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